Taking Responsibility and Learning from Failures.

If my products or services are not liked by my customers, I am at fault for not being able to deliver something that is remarkable and not being able to satisfy them with my efforts.

If I make a sales presentation and my customer doesn't buy from me it is because of my lack of passion or connection with the customer or my inability to understand their needs and satisfy those needs or simply because my product or service is not as good as it should be.

If my girlfriend fails to understand me and ends the relationship even after many years of my genuine investment into the relationship, again I am at fault for not assessing the compatibility challenges and difference in our vision and values at the start of the relationship rather than jumping into it to satisfy short term emotional and other needs.

If my child lies to me, again it’s my fault because I must have done something wrong for her not to feel comfortable enough to tell me the truth even if she has made a mistake or done something wrong.

If I start a project which I have left unfinished because of my lack of budget to complete it, I am at fault because I didn’t scope it well at the start and study the entire requirements in detail and spend the required time in doing my feasibility studies and working out the exact cost of completion to begin with.

All too often we end up in situations where we are required to take responsibility of our doings and in most cases we end up in these situations when we haven’t spend time thinking and planning and understanding the full implications of our actions before taking the decision.

Leadership is about taking responsibility for all our actions and accepting our mistakes and understanding the reasons of our failures and then stepping up and taking the difficult decision to put the journey on the right path.

Good leaders take time to think and plan the correct actions so they can enjoy its regret free journey with pride and see it through to completion and take their lives or businesses to a better place rather than backwards.

I challenge you today to think about what are some of the decisions which you have made which could have been made differently if you knew of its consequences which you know now. And I challenge you to accept responsibility for those decisions and stand up and do the right thing now.

I also challenge you to think about what are some of the new decisions you are about to make which will have an impact to your personal or professional life in the future and I want you to delay making that decision for a few days or a few weeks and spend that time to think about all its implications and fully understand the implications before taking action.

Signing off,
John Singh.

Live > Love > Dream > Think > Do > Be